Burning Inside

My heart is on fire.

I struggle in a fierce battle.

My mind shouts: "Who cares about him?" My heart screams: "I DO!"

I don't want to love him. But I do want to love him.

Everywhere I go, I see his face. I feel his hand in mine. I feel his fingers stroke my cheek. I feel his breath on my skin. I feel his lips against mine...

Why me? Why can't I just be left alone? I didn't want to be hit by cupid's arrow.

The stories and songs say love is beautiful, they say it's easy and painless and wonderful.

This love hurts. It burns me alive.

Why did I ever have to meet him?!

My heart hasn't healed from the last time I loved this much.

I'll just be hurt again, I say, I can't love him.

No, my heart argues, This boy is the one.

He will never hurt you.

Why does love always have to win?

No matter how torn and bloody and hurt the heart is, love always drags it up again and pushes it to another one's heart.

I hate love. Yet why do I still love him?

Author's Note

Tell me what you think. This idea hit me by surprise.

Reviews

[brittneymarie]

Wow this was very good. I enjoyed reading this. The first couple of lines dragged me in..Especially when you were having like a conversation with yourself..
Great write..
BrittneyMarie

[moon manmad]

good job. I especially like the line "why does love always have to win?"

[Silvario]

Very nice! I really enjoyed this piece. Well written and driven with obvious talent and emotion. Strong and imaginative. Well done, you have a new fan. :)

[~Mariposa Una Lila~]

that was adorable...great job! x0

[nostal]

Brilliant.

[The Scanners See Sound]

Frankly, this could have been so much better.

Not to say that it's that bad or anything, maybe a little flat, but by your style of expression, it could have been so much better. And I suppose that's just it; it's very flat. You convey your point very nicely, at least nice enough to really have a sense of the emotion you're having. But it's expressed almost in a robotic manner, by that I mean your imagery via wording.

The piece is very 'face value', with no need to really look deeper and find alternate, or symbolic meanings. Because of that, it becomes boring fairly quickly.

Regardless, it's not bad, but I think you could have done better.

[LlamaLord]

Ah, quite a brilliant piece. I have to agree with J.E. Cardwell on this one; it is completely accurate. I really love these lines...

"No matter how torn and bloody and hurt the heart is, love always drags it up again and pushes it to another one's heart."

So very true. Love just keeps coming, even when you feel as though you can live without it. Thanks for the nice read!

-Austin

[J.E. Stroud]

Ha, love feels like setting yourself on fire.
This poem was completely accurate...

[Aislinn Gryffin ((Ashes..]

This is exactly how I feel right now. It's amazing. This is an excellent piece of writing.